Systems Lead

Victory Farms is the world's fastest-growing aquaculture company, founded in 2015, operating in the Agriculture & Agribusiness sector. It is a mission-oriented organization focused on operational excellence across Kenya, Rwanda, and Tanzania.

You will play a critical role in ensuring our core business systems remain reliable, scalable, and aligned with the evolving needs of the business. You will lead a team of developers while partnering closely with Finance, Operations, HR, and IT to translate business requirements into robust ERPNext configurations, customizations, and integrations. In addition, you will establish engineering best practices, ensure system reliability and data integrity, and drive the continuous enhancement of enterprise systems that support operational efficiency and business performance across the organization.

1. Own the architecture of the ERPNext estate across group entities — custom doctypes, server and client scripts, workflows, and valuation logic (including fixed valuation rates for gutted fish SKUs and warehouse-specific variance posting).
2. Hold accountability for the correctness of business workflows and edge cases, system uptime, and the health of background jobs and queues on Frappe Cloud.
3. Perform controlled remediation (System Console scripts, targeted data fixes) with proper safeguards, change control and rollback discipline; maintain runbooks for recurring incidents.
4. Manage releases, patches and upgrades, user roles and permissions, and data-security measures protecting sensitive information under the Kenya Data Protection Act (2019).
5. Design and maintain the integrations that feed operational data into ERPNext — M-Pesa / Daraja payment flows, Power Automate / SharePoint field-data synchronization, and other third-party APIs — ensuring seamless, reliable data flow.
6. Own the upstream capture logic behind them: feed and mortality logging, stock movement and consumption tracking, and purchase-to-receipt and billing workflows.
7. Ensure data is captured correctly at the point of operation so that downstream platforms (Snowflake, Power BI) inherit clean, trustworthy records.
8. Support the offline-first field applications (e.g. the Victory Feed Log PWA) and the pipelines that post their data into ERPNext Stock Entries.
9. Lead, mentor and develop a small team of developers; set and enforce development, testing, code-review and release standards.
10. Own change and release management, technical documentation, standard operating procedures and user training, driving ERPNext adoption across departments.
11. Maintain an after-hours support / on-call model so production issues are handled without single-person dependency, and manage relationships with external vendors and partner apps.
12. Stay current with ERPNext / Frappe releases and industry practice, recommending improvements to performance, efficiency and user experience.

1. Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field.
2. 4+ years’ experience in ERPNext / Frappe development and customization, with at least some time in a lead or senior capacity.
3. Strong proficiency in Python and JavaScript, and deep knowledge of the Frappe framework, ERPNext modules, workflows and architecture.
4. Demonstrated experience integrating ERPNext with external systems and APIs (payment gateways such as M-Pesa / Daraja, Microsoft 365 / Power Automate, and similar).
5. Familiarity with database management (MariaDB / MySQL), SQL, and web technologies (HTML, CSS, REST APIs).
6. Proven leadership and team-management skills, with the ability to motivate and mentor engineers.
7. Strong problem-solving, project-management and communication skills, and the ability to prioritize across parallel workstreams.
8. Experience in a manufacturing, distribution or multi-entity operating environment, and with Agile methodologies, is a plus.